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August 19, 2007 |
Protests begin ahead of Montebello summit
Miscellaneous
Hundreds of activists rallied on Parliament Hill to protest the secretive nature of the upcoming summit in Montebello, Que. involving North America's three political leaders. |
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August 18, 2007 |
China to install sensors along NAFTA highway
Worldnet Daily
Radio sensing stations to track traffic and cargo up and down the I-35 NAFTA Superhighway corridor are being installed by Communist China, operating through a port operator subsidiary of Hutchison Whampoa, in conjunction with Lockheed Martin and the North America's SuperCorridor Coalition, Inc. |
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August 17, 2007 |
The escape of the enablers
Fortune Magazine
Wall Street loves to talk about letting financial markets weed out the weak. But when the Street itself gets in trouble, it sticks out its little tin cup, asking for help. And gets it. |
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August 17, 2007 |
Congress tells Bush: Back off SPP agenda
Worldnet Daily
Twenty-two members of the U.S. House of Representatives – 21 Republicans and a Democrat – are urging President Bush to back off his North American integration efforts when he attends the third summit meeting on the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America next week in Montebello, Quebec. |
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August 17, 2007 |
Left, right unite to protest SPP summit in Quebec
National Post (Ca)
OTTAWA -- The far right and far left will find common ground next week as representatives from both political spectrums protest the summit between Canadian, American and Mexican leaders in Montebello, Que. |
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August 17, 2007 |
Fed's Poole warns on trade protectionism
Reuters
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (Reuters) -- St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President William Poole said Friday that rising protectionism in the United States was a worry and the Doha round of world trade talks were on the verge of collapse. |
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August 15, 2007 |
Nation Magazine Calls NAFTA Superhighway a Myth
The Nation
When completed, the highway will run from Mexico City to Toronto, slicing through the heartland like a dagger sunk into a heifer at the loins and pulled clean to the throat. It will be four football fields wide, an expansive gully of concrete, noise and exhaust, swelled with cars, trucks, trains and pipelines carrying water, wires and God knows what else. |
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August 14, 2007 |
U.S, Comptroller General: Learn from the fall of Rome
Financial Times
The US government is on a ‘burning platform’ of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon, the country’s top government inspector has warned. |
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August 11, 2007 |
Iran bankrolled by World Bank
Washington Post
Both the U.N. Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency have found Iran in breach of its obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The IAEA reports that Iran ignored the Security Council's February deadline to stop enriching uranium and has even expanded its nuclear program. |
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August 09, 2007 |
ECB injects €95bn to help markets
Financial Times
The European Central Bank scrambled to head off a potential financial crisis on Thursday by pumping an emergency €94.8bn ($131bn) into the region’s banking system after liquidity in the interbank market started to dry up, threatening banks’ access to short-term funds. |
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